Unpaid carers to people with terminal cancer are providing health and social care worth £219 million each year – but health experts have warned that the Government is going to
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Decisions on when patients are reaching the end of their life should be taken by a number of health experts rather than relying on the medical opinion of just one
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Depression and personality disorders are the most common diagnoses in psychiatric patients requesting help to die, research has found. The study, published in the online journal BMJ Open, focused on
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The National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has called for a review into how dying, death and bereavement are dealt with across government departments and public bodies. The calls are
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In Scotland more and more adults are now living with long term, often progressive, conditions involving specific palliative care needs. The future provision of palliative and end of life care
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People whose friend or relative died in a hospital have rated their end of life care “significantly lower” than those whose loved ones died in a hospice, care home or
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The number of people dying at home or in care homes has increased by 25% in a decade, a report into end-of-life care found. Home continues to be the preferred
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A plan to reduce deaths from a range of diseases is “highly unethical” because it discriminates against people aged 70 and over, according to leading medical experts. In a letter
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The proportion of people dying in hospices in England has nearly doubled since 1993, but the gap in hospice deaths between people living in the least and most deprived areas
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Northern Ireland’s Health Minister, Simon Hamilton, has launched the new Health and Social Care (HSC) Bereavement Network website for those who care for and support dying people and their loved
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